Forum Display Enhancements - This Day In History ~ Changes Daily

This Day in History

Just a Little hack here which you can add to your Forums, Give you a bit of content which changes daily, Should keep your members amused.

You can use this code in a variety of places, If you want it at the top of your forum you can add it to your header like below...



or if you want to be a bit creative you can make a new category and add the code to the discription field, this is great if you want to break up your forum like this...



Content changes daily and your members can read up more about the Day in History directly at the http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ site.

So lets do it......

If you want to add the code to your header, or footer, simply go to your ACP > Style Manager > Your Style

and add this to either the Header or Footer

<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>
<!--This Day in History by TheFreeDictionary.com-->
<div style="width:750px;position:relative;background-color:;padding:4px">
<div style="font:bold 15pt '';color:#000000">This Day in History</div>
<style>
#TodaysHistory {width:100%;border:none;background-color:}
#TodaysHistory H3 {margin-top:0px;font:bold 12pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory TD {font:normal 10pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory A {color:#0000FF}
</style>
<script language="javascript"
src="http://img.tfd.com/daily/history-top.js?0"></script>
<div style="font:normal 8pt '';color:#000000">
</div></div>
<!--end of This Day in History-->

If you want to add it within your forum, as a category type of insertion, just go to your ACP >Forums & Moderators > Add New Forum

In the title add : This Day In History

In the discription add the code below..

<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>
<!--This Day in History by TheFreeDictionary.com-->
<div style="width:750px;position:relative;background-color:#FFFFFF">
<div style="font:bold 15pt '';color:#000000"></div>
<style>
#TodaysHistory {width:100%;border:none;background-color:}
#TodaysHistory H3 {margin-top:0px;font:bold 12pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory TD {font:normal 10pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory A {color:#0000FF}
</style>
<script language="javascript"
src="http://img.tfd.com/daily/history-top.js?0"></script>
<div style="font:normal 8pt '';color:#000000">
</div></div>
<!--end of This Day in History-->

Remember under Posting options select "NO" to "Act as Forum" This will keep it as a standalone category style.

*****************UPDATE**********************

If you wanted to add this as an insertion after each 1st post you could use the code below (See picture ) This will show it after each 1st post in threads



Just go to your ACP> Style Manager> Your Style> Edit Templates> Forum Display Template> Postbit Template > (then your chosen Positbit ~ either plain postbit or legecy)

Add this code to the very end of your postbit template

<if condition="!$GLOBALS['FIRSTPOSTID']"> 

$spacer_open 
<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px"> 

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"> 
<tr> 
    <td class="thead" align="left">This Day in History</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
    <td class="alt1" align="center"> 
<!--This Day in History by TheFreeDictionary.com-->
<div style="width:750px;position:relative;background-color:;padding:4px">
<div style="font:bold 15pt '';color:#000000">This Day in History</div>
<style>
#TodaysHistory {width:100%;border:none;background-color:}
#TodaysHistory H3 {margin-top:0px;font:bold 12pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory TD {font:normal 10pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory A {color:#0000FF}
</style>
<script language="javascript"
src="http://img.tfd.com/daily/history-top.js?0"></script>
<div style="font:normal 8pt '';color:#000000">
</div>
<!--end of This Day in History-->

</if> 
    </td> 
</tr> 
</table> 

</div> 
$spacer_close 

</if>

if you come up with alternative uses, feel free to share them here

Thats it

Enjoy

[scottny]

Ok

thanks for the reply.

[poetrymansion]

I know this is a great mod, but sadly im blooming useless and i think i have killed everything.. PLEASE HELP.....

i added it using the within a forum option, and now all my margins have gone nutty and dont look right anymore, even after i have removed the added forum....

PLEASE HELP....

b4 the misses see's ive just killed her site......

HHHEEEELLLLLPPPP ANYONE......

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by poetrymansion

I know this is a great mod, but sadly im blooming useless and i think i have killed everything.. PLEASE HELP.....

i added it using the within a forum option, and now all my margins have gone nutty and dont look right anymore, even after i have removed the added forum....

PLEASE HELP....

b4 the misses see's ive just killed her site......


HHHEEEELLLLLPPPP ANYONE......

Post a link to your site and let me know what method you chose out of the 3 posted, I'll help where i can :erm:

[poetrymansion]

Thanks friend... great add-on..... once i was saved from myself... lol

I'd like it to link to poetry, but i think im best just leave it alone ah lol

cheers

poetrymansion

[jlew24asu]

I installed this in a thread and made it a sticky cool idea!

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

I installed this in a thread and made it a sticky cool idea!

Glad you liked it

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by poetrymansion

Thanks friend... great add-on..... once i was saved from myself... lol

I'd like it to link to poetry, but i think im best just leave it alone ah lol

cheers

poetrymansion

You made us all smile that night Clive

[YLP1]

Originally Posted by jlew24asu

I installed this in a thread and made it a sticky cool idea!

I would really like to know how you turned it into a thread. I have tried a variety of ways and failed. This is the method I think would work best for my site. Thanks in advance.

[jlew24asu]

Originally Posted by YLP1

I would really like to know how you turned it into a thread. I have tried a variety of ways and failed. This is the method I think would work best for my site. Thanks in advance.

just make sure you allow HTML in that forum.

I went to the site provided by the coder and did Option 2.2

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lookup.htm#sitecontent

(I added <div center=align> code </div> to center it)

here is my thread
http://www.chicagophotoshop.com/foru...read.php?t=900

[UKBusinessLive]

Nice Idea